[Xymon] Disable Single Test after Hours

[Ralph Mitchell]

Does the test still show up in the report if you send a "disable" for it?
 You should be able to do something like this with cron:

   xymon localhost "disable yadda,bling,com.http 60 Nap Time"

Ralph Mitchell



On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have a host, running an HTTP server.
> We need to monitor the host, 24x7, but the HTTP test goes down overnight
> for regular updates, or refueling or something.  Ours not reason why....
> I want to disable just the HTTP test after hours..
> And before you say I should put a TIME entry in alerts.cfg, it's not that
> simple.
>
> Every morning, a remote co-worker, looks at the EvenLog Report, and
> generates an "Incident Report" for the PHBs.
> The alerts.cfg entry simply stops the alerts from going out. The test
> still goes red, and shows up as an event.
>
> You might think he could exclude the host in the appropriate exclude
> field, but there are other aspects of the host that need to be monitored,
> and included in the report.
> We could exclude HTTP from the report, but we have other hosts running
> HTTP services that must remain up, and need to be in the report too.
>
> So how to disable a single HTTP test for a specific time period, on a
> single server so it doesn't generate events?
> Alternatively, leave a single host:test combo out of the EventLog report.
>
> Regards
> Vernon
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